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“If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I’ve been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws,” Obama told Fareed Zakaria in the TV special, “The Legacy of Barack Obama.”

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He had his chance – many of them. Two years of a Congress that was under his party’s control, a slew of mass shootings – each one followed up with a glassy-eyed Obama saying “Enough is enough!” with America’s rights and polls that seemed to tilt his favor from time to time, only to tilt back again.

There was national anger following the mass shootings – Orlando, Sandy Hook Elementary, San Bernardino, Aurora – but that didn’t mean there was popular support for cracking down on law-abiding gun owners.

Following the Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012, Obama was adamant that he had done “all he could” to keep the U.S. afloat in the midst of other challenges, The Washington Examinerreports.